This book examines design features and management practices of some agroforestry practices and their impact on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it delivers. It also identifies policy issues for facilitating adoption of desirable agroforestry practices and gradual diminution of undesirable policies.

Agroforestry has great potential for reducing deforestation and forest degradation, providing rural livelihoods and habitats for species outside formally protected land, and alleviating resource-use pressure on conservation areas. However, widespread adoption of agroforestry innovations is still constrained by a myriad of factors including design features of candidate agroforestry innovations, perceived needs, policies, availability and distribution of factors of production, and perception of risks. Understanding the science, and factors that regulate the adoption, of agroforestry and how they impact the implementation of agroforestry is vitally important.

ContentsPreface1 Consumption of Acorns by Finishing Iberian Pigs and Their Function in the Conservation of the Dehesa Agroecosystem2 A Conceptual Model of Carbon Dynamics for Improved Fallows in the Tropics3 Drivers of Parasitoid Wasps' Community Composition in Cacao Agroforestry Practice in Bahia State, Brazil4 The Effects of Tree-Alfalfa Intercropped Systems on Wood Quality in Temperate Regions5 Shoot Pruning and Impact on Functional Equilibrium Between Shoots and Roots in Simultaneous Agroforestry Systems6 Improved Policies for Facilitating the Adoption of Agroforestry7 Mainstreaming Agroforestry Policy in Tanzania Legal Framework8 Effectiveness of Grassroots Organisations in the Dissemination of Agroforestry Innovationswith TOC BookMarkLinks